Harrison High School - Reminiscence Yearbook (Harrison, NY)

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Assistant Principal Your individual . and combined efforts have made the Class of 1964 one which will be long remembered. You are about to enter the new and exciting phase of life for which high school has been preparing you. Our nation needs more young people with the same seriousness of purpose and diligence in work which your class leaders and workers have exhibited at Harrison High School. Sir Walter Scott in his counsel to a young friend said, “Whoever determinedly sets about a business has half accomplished it. Your motto must be, ‘Forward Now!' Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business, never before it.” It is my heartfelt hope that each of you will find success and happiness in all your endeavors. Kenneth J. Meyer Assistant Principal Principal It is indeed a pleasure for me to write this letter. Six years ago we both started in Harrison Junior-Senior High School. We were new, eager, and desirous to improve ourselves and our school. Your class accomplished much; each one of you contributed in his own way, and as a result we have a good school, graduating fine, well-prepared citizens. During your stay at Harrison High, you have witnessed our country distinguish itself in the pursuit of high purposes and eternal values. We have contributed to the appreciation of peace; we are in the very middle of a national re-evaluation of prayer; and we have started to understand the dignity of man. There is still much to be done. Your gener- ation will have to finish the great task of building for peace, of understanding the role and power of prayer, and of assuring some measure of dignity to every human being—white and black, rich and poor, native and foreign. May your deeds and accomplishments continue to make Harrison High School proud of you. Congratulations and good luck! £ xkObt Nelson E. Smith Principal 10

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Superintendent of Schools To The Class of 1964: Congratulations to each and everyone of you and your parents on the successful completion of your High School education! As you face the future, your own sense of values will determine the extent to which you will aid your development, both as a person and as a contributor to your com- munity and nation. I am including in your sense of values the importance you place on each of the following: 4. 5. Your respect for continual learning Your sense of self-discipline and moral behavior Your respect and love for the freedom and heritage which is ours as a nation. Your attitude towards the rights of each individual and the relationship of his rights to the growth of our democracy Your feeling towards the religious heri- tage of yourself and your family In my opinion, the foregoing are some of the major values to which you will need to give consideration as you move forward in your own development as a person. Good Luck! Cordially, Louis M. Klein Superintendent Assistant Superintendent of Schools To The Class of 1964 I regret that because of the nature of my work in the Harrison Schools I do not know all of you as closely or personally as do your principal and teachers. Be that as it may, I am still intimately involved in plan- ning with the faculty the quality and nature of the instructional program which you pur- sue. Our efforts and aspirations have been constantly bent towards giving you a pro- gram of excellence to the hopeful end result that you will develop into liberally educated people—articulate, humane, and thoughtful— imbued with the finest qualities our Western civilization and Democratic society have been able to produce. We nourish the hope that we have, in great measure, succeeded and that you, as gradu- ates of Harrison High School, will continue to nourish these qualities in your life. Clayton A. Friis Assistant Superintendent of Schools 9

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“No, that’s the way to the boys’ locker room!”